{"id":9,"date":"2008-10-10T05:58:53","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T05:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theweddingdresser.net\/wedding\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2018-11-17T04:36:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T04:36:04","slug":"caroline-shaw","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.theweddingdresser.net\/wedding\/?page_id=9","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theweddingwench\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-126\" title=\"twitter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theweddingdresser.net\/wedding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/twitter.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"41\" height=\"41\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/weddingwench\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-128\" title=\"pinterest\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theweddingdresser.net\/wedding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/pinterest.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"45\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/thedresserblog.tumblr.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-140\" title=\"tumbler\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theweddingdresser.net\/wedding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/t2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"46\" height=\"44\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Love of a big gown goes all the way back to my childhood in Dublin. My Mother was a fashion watcher, whether it was Hollywood glamour or the British Royal family Joan Shaw (a dressmaker and knitter herself) copied the runway looks and could be heard saying to my father \u201c tell the girls that its right out of the magazines\u201d when we bemoaned the tiresome fittings, as my Mother pinned her latest creation on us!<\/p>\n<p>My Mother had an eye for drama and the last great outfit I recall her wearing was (to my Holy Communion) a wonderful black and white houndstooth swing coat with a large white straw hat, tilted at just the right angle (think Grace Kelly in &#8220;High Society&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Weddings in Ireland were a community affair (or so we thought). It was a common occurrence when a Bride left her parents home on her Wedding Day that the neighbours came out to cheer and wave her on and of course to \u201ccheck out\u201d the dress. Churches were not off limits either and many a Bride and Groom came down the aisle to see the local ladies with prams and shopping bags congregated around the back of the Church wishing her well and telling her how lovely and gorgeous she looked !!<\/p>\n<p>Everybody loves a Bride ! and I\u2019m a firm believer that it\u2019s not possible to be over dressed on your Wedding day and as my friend Rebecca Byrne\u2019s mother said to her on her Wedding day:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re only going to do it this way once \u2026\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Welcome and congratulations on your upcoming nuptials, I look forward to not only working with you on the day but providing you, your groom and attendants with some fashion guidelines and useful tips.<br \/>\nAnd yes, I\u2019m still in the habit of sticking my head in the door when I think there\u2019s a fabulous wedding going on !!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Love of a big gown goes all the way back to my childhood in Dublin. My Mother was a fashion watcher, whether it was Hollywood glamour or the British Royal family Joan Shaw (a dressmaker and knitter herself) copied the runway looks and could be heard saying to my father \u201c tell the girls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theweddingdresser.net\/wedding\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theweddingdresser.net\/wedding\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theweddingdresser.net\/wedding\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theweddingdresser.net\/wedding\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theweddingdresser.net\/wedding\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/www.theweddingdresser.net\/wedding\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/www.theweddingdresser.net\/wedding\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theweddingdresser.net\/wedding\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}